Method of ornamenting chinaware and the like



July 19, 1932. E. HARDESTY METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHINAWARE AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 10, 1 931 5 INVENTOR. BY M W ATTORNEY l atent ed July 19 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcs EUGENE 'HARDESTY, on NEW BRIGHTOR'IPENNSYLVANIA, 'ASSIGNOR TO MAYER CHINA COMPANY, OF BEAVER FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA, A I CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA 7 METHOD or oitneiunn'rnvo oniuawnnn ANn'rHE LIKE Y Application filed January 10, 1931, serial ua sozavs.

' This invention refers to an improved method of applying color to china or pottery ware or the like, to produce a decorated or ornamental effect by the means hereinafter de- 1 scribed; The method is particularly applica-.'

ble to articles, as plates, s'aucers,dishes, etc',, or of any shape of china or glass having a relatively smooth surfaceg' The object in view is the production of an annular band or hands of desired varying light orshade values resulting from the novel treatment involved.

Generally stated, the invention consists in distributing-or extending the color from a solid band or line laterally through a fading out or thinner value distribution, with a merging effect from afull color value through agradually decreasing shadearea, fading into the normal background of the ware, as white.

In the drawing, illustrating certain preferred embodiments of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a partial face viewof a plate or the like illustrating the applied result of the method;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a modification of the treatment; I

Fig. 3 is a detail View showing one-manner of carrying out the method, by the use of a spreading brush;

Fig. 4 is a similar View showing the use of a sponge or other dauber.

Referring toFig. 1, the piece of ware 2, as a plate, is first covered, for any desired portion of its annular area, with a solid band 3 of any desirable color. known practice, such color is first ground in a suitable medium as turpentine, and then a fat or slick oil is added to make the color flow more freely and evenly from the original applying brush. Such operation is preferably 7 performed during rotation or other suitable manipulation of the ware. Numerous suclflfat oils are on the market and are in common use inthe industry.

After the color has been thus applied with a brush or the like, forming a band of solid color value of any desired width, another or spreading brush 4, preferably first dipped in turpentine or other similar material, is wiped over the color band, or a portion of it, as by i the j color throughout the "Varying value margin 5a; I V V In such application the terminalband 5 In ordinary well holding the brush against theware as it is rotated, as in Fig. p Y i I It will be understood also that thesame efiect may be produced by movement or ma: nipulation of a brush or dauber against astat cnary surface, as in the case of non-circular articles not adapted to rotation in a holder.

Dependent on the desired effect, the brush maybe held or applied against the ware with slight, incresed, or heavy pressure and at varying distances inwardly of the band 3, so

that the moist color will be distributed in a: fading or decreasing value, as indicated at- 5, gradually merging or vanishingintothe plain white or other base color surface of the ware.

r The same general effect may be [secured using a daub'er 4a in'the; form of a sponge, a ball of cloth, cotton,zwaste, or'the likein the hands of the operator, .rapplied withvaryingpressure against the surface oftheware general manner distributing Y laterally extended and in the same will extend from the extreme edgeof' the 2 Ware inwardly in unvaryin'g value, with an inwardly shaded vanishing. or" fading border. It will of course be understood that the same general effect may be securedat both sides of an original inwardly located band 3 by spreading the color both inwardly and outwardly therefrom, as at '5? on both sides "thereof, by )properpmanipulation of the spreading brush or dauber, as in Fig. 2. d The effect may be secured by" application at any portion of the ware, andwithor without supplemental band 6 of. varying widths or spaces; g j j It will alsof'be understood that the method a graduated 11001 .value'effect on chinaware M T by spraying the color in varying values in'j' 90 may'be used with a pluralityof different "colors, maintaining a solid band of each in annular or parallel relationship with gradual T975 efl'ectgonresult andifmanipulation "of the 7 color applications which however gives- I ingeffect'on ues,,and that,

an attempt to secure a fading-out appearance, but-such operation results only in a series of more or less closely adjacent spots, without pleasing gradation.

However, such treatment may be very greatly improved by subjecting such sprayed to the spreading action of a brush or other dauber, merging the values gradually I and continuously throughout the. varying lateral extension from the solid-band I in the same manner as above described. I have also'found that a somewhat similar but slightly different effect may be produced by applying the color as described, then washing it down with a brush dipped inturpentine, and then going'over the whole color surface by application of a stiff bristle brush, a somewhat more streaked effect than that describedabove. It will be understood that the stiffness of the brush and the degree of pressure with which it is applied will have a varying determinthe resulting varying color valsuch application is entirely within the skill and judgment of the oper-- ator to secure continuously similar designs.

After the color has been applied in the manner described, any further decorations may be applied to the ware'accordingto well known methods in common use in the industry,'such as additional prints, more lines,

or decalcomania or other ornamentation,

placed u'pon'or alongside the color applica.

ftionof the present invention.

In practicing the invention-I have secured excellentresults loyapplying thegocolor' to application to extend it in a varying color value margin. r i

3. In the art of decorating china, glass or similar ware, the method consisting in first applying a color invested with a fat oil in the form of a solid annular band; and then spreading aportion of the band by brush application to extend it in a varying and finally vanishinglcolor value margin.

In the artof decorating china or amt lar ware, the method consisting [in apply-' ing to the neutral surface of theware prior, to glazing an annular'band of oil-invested color, then spreading a portion of the band laterally in fading away value extending uniformly beyond the band over the neutral surface of the'ware. V I

- 5. In the art of decorating china JOI similar ware, the method consisting in rotating the ware, then applying to the neutral surface thereof prior to glazing an annular band of oil-invested color, rand then spreading a portion of the band partially .over the neutral surface. of the ware in continuous conicentric relation to the bandand extending thereb'eyond in diminishing color value. 7

In testimony whereof I hereunto; afiix'my signature.

' EUGENE nA nE-s'rY.

. bisque ware with application ofthe'glaze over 7. '1

the color, .and such process may-be followed equally well on glostware, or on topof-the V to the first firing.

glaze, or to clay ware before being subjected lrnent may be made with varying and pleas- I ing effect, it being understood that fixation of the design is to be secured following the usualfiring and other practices. in the art. Also, that the inethodrabove. described isin no way limitedto any particular design,

either of the ornamentation or decoration, or of the ware itself;

Having described my invention, what I g claimis: V g 1; In the art of decoratingchina, glass or similar ware, themethod consisting inl'apf plying a continuous solid uniform width band of color to the surface .and then applying a spreading brush or the like to .dis-

tribute the edgeportion o f jthe twai diminishing colon-value.

'2. .In the art of decorating china, glassor similar ware, thecmet-hod consistingl in first applying a color invested with fa fat oil [in thewform are I s di 1 P9 i fb d b r s solidannular band and then. 

